Unable to pay for the operation that cured his daughter, a man promises to surrender her to the doctor on her eighteenth birthday. Knowing that the physician wishes to make her the subject of his experiments with hypnotism, the distressed father ultimately reneges on his promise, whereupon the doctor attempts to hypnotize the girl from afar.
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Robert Z. Leonard as The Father (as Robert Leonard)
Ella Hall as Ella - the Daughter
Harry Carter as Dr. Sevani
Allan Forrest as Ella's Sweetheart - a Lawyer (as Alan Forrest)
Mark Fenton as The Coroner
United States 02 June 1915
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1915:
19 June 1915
Out of the blue, war is declared, making two otherwise friendly neighbouring nations deadly enemies. Amid the inferno, finding themselves on different sides of the conflict, Elsa and Alexis are forced to call off their engagement.
04 July 1915
Emphasizing themes of female independence and the esteem due to the men serving in the armed forces, the plot involves a strong-willed young woman (Agnes Vernon) who defies her father in order to marry a soldier (Hobart Henly) instead of the well-to-do suitor preferred by her father.
08 November 1915
A man neglects his wife to be with a dance hall singer. When the truth of his infidelity reaches his wife and the truth of his marital status reaches his lover, both women are heartbroken.
19 October 1915
The story of Silvio Pellico who was arrested on the charge of carbonarism and conveyed to the Santa Margherita prison, then moved to the Piombi at Venice The sentence of death pronounced on him in February 1822 was finally commuted to fifteen years of jail in harsh condition, and he was placed in the Spielberg, at Brünn (today's Brno).
01 October 1915
Bruce Marsden, a former millionaire fallen on bad times, marries Helen Stanhope against her mother's wishes.
16 April 1915
Luke McVane (William S. Hart) shoots a card-cheat in self-defense and has to make a run for it before the town lynch him.
29 March 1915
"If yew cum a lone to thee third bench from thee fontan yew will find sum one to chear your loneliness.
12 November 1915
Helen Moore (Grace Williams) runs off with the nephew of Senator Foote, but when their car breaks down, they go to a hotel.
24 May 1915
A British army officer refuses to avenge the death of a general who was murdered years earlier. He is awarded three feathers by his officers.
04 September 1915
New England fisherman Dan McQuade finds a dying woman and her daughter shipwrecked after a storm and raises the daughter, whom he names Coral.
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